I wanted to create a video that celebrated the typographic individuality of New York’s famous print publications while highlighting the commonality of their shared geographic beat.

New York is a city iconicized in popular culture across the world. Much like the city, its print publications have a reputation and influence beyond the city limits. Growing up overseas, I knew them not by the content of their articles but by the defining design of their typographic mastheads.

For this video, I chose to make each masthead uniformly read ‘New York’ and approached the animation as a chance to showcase the individuality of the typography. Behind the animation, I added archive footage of the city which corresponded with the era of each publication in its heyday. Finally, I cut a video to a music track which I felt matched the frantic pace of New York’s newsrooms.